Data-Driven Identification of Factors That Influence the Quality of Adverse Event Reports: 15-Year Interpretable Machine Learning and Time-Series Analyses of VigiBase and QUEST.

Background: The completeness of adverse event (AE) reports, crucial for assessing putative causal relationships, is measured using the vigiGrade completeness score in VigiBase, the World Health Organization global database of reported potential AEs. Malaysian reports have surpassed the global average score (approximately 0.44), achieving a 5-year average of 0.

Effects of sharing information on drug administration errors in pediatric wards: a pre-post intervention study.

Background And Purpose: Drug administration errors are more likely to reach the patient than other medication errors. The main aim of this study was to determine whether the sharing of information on drug administration errors among health care providers would reduce such problems.

Patients And Methods: This study involved direct, undisguised observations of drug administrations in two pediatric wards of a major teaching hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.